Parliament legislates the Income Tax Act, but much of the nitty gritty is regulatory. That supports your position for the most part; I’m just being pedantic.
The Govt could probably issue an OIC today if they felt politically compelled to act on the CAF situation. They don't really care though so situation no change though.
They have that. Its called your VIE for Inftr, Armoured NCM, Gunner and Cbt Engr.
isn’t that the counter argument to anything where some people get a benefit others do not? The issue is using that while also lamenting it when it suits you. Public sector benefits get criticized all the time. Pensions, medical dental, pay etc. Maybe those are gold standards to achieve rather than reducing it to the lowest denominator, right?
That does not mean green welfare is the solution.
So more green welfare? And here you mentioned taking national defence seriously
That’s not what I said now is it. I never pictured you as someone championing social causes btw.There is a difference between adulting and junior people, many with families, unable to afford basic needs due to CAF service requirements. Go ahead and tell that new Pte/Cpl posted to Comox or Halifax that their affordability and housing issues are due to adulting.
Is it a social cause if it only benefits the “elite”? I use the term elite loosely. Drastic changes are needed to recruit and retain. If you want people to sign on the ”unlimited liability” line, there needs to be more incentive. That the CAF will look after you and your family is a big incentive. Housing is a massive problem in this country. Find a way to mitigate that problem for those who are considering serving and the CAF starts to look like a better option.
You'd regret that cynical view if a real war pops off. Planes can't take or hold ground and you air force lot don't tend to like the mud that much. We contribute to one and two by being ready to keep the fight away from the homeland and we will do most of the dying in that case.
does anyone have a recent example of our government doing anything like this in any context? Of any political affiliation? I’m open to being corrected.
A lot of this sounds like the Air Force failed to do its job and now want to the Army to bail them out. The Air Force had years to establish a trade and make it a recruitment priority, instead through sheer incompetency they let it get down to the wire and are now freaking out. Lovely.
My interactions with treasury board? Lol, I’m a first level supervisor cop. I’ve had some weird calls, but never with them.
The Army has successfully divested air defence, let its indirect fire capabilities wither to almost nothing, let the armoured corps deteriorate, fail to invest in sustainment equipment or personnel, permitted national holdings of ammunition and spare parts to shrink to unsafe levels, and gutted its individual training system to the point where it cannot deliver without massive augmentation from the field force.
Have all three services not failed at the institutional level? Failures by the army as you describe don’t mean RCAF hasn’t failed to adequately anticipate and move forward on a timely manner with its own force protection needs.
Is it referring to dedicated security roles, or simply being part of the WASF rotation?
